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The chapters in this book deal with different, though related,
topics concerning the tense relationship between democracy and
diversity. On the one hand, social diversity represents an
opportunity, widening the horizon of social options and
perspectives of innovation, but, on the other hand, it creates
problems for the social cohesion and peaceful coexistence of many
groups, be they majority or minority. The chapters depart from the
intrinsic connection between democracy and diversity - and the
unavoidable challenges that pluralism poses to decision-making
procedures - investigating, from different perspectives, how the
normative requirement of fully respecting agents' reflexive agency
impacts the revision of democratic decision-making procedures and
the way in which institutions react to citizens' justice-based
claims. All the contributions share the theoretical insight that
diversity is one of the raisons d'etre of democracy, and, still,
all acknowledge that the fact of pluralism poses challenges to the
legitimacy of democratic procedures of decision-making. Indeed, if
citizens had the same values and preferences, collective decisions
would be easily achieved and the institution of democratic
procedures would be redundant. Yet the wide pluralism of doctrines,
habits, social standards, and conceptions of the goods typical of
contemporary societies has often led citizens to challenge the
legitimacy of democratic decisions because these choices do not fit
their preferences or values. To address these challenges following
recent accounts of democratic decision-making, in this volume,
different strategies are introduced, defended, and criticized in
order to outline a perspective that is able to guide actual
decision-making processes (guidance), define standards that
everyone has equal opportunity to fulfil (inclusion), and grant
that citizens exercise their reflexive control on the whole
democratic system (reflexivity). The chapters in this book were
originally published as a special issue of the Critical Review of
International Social and Political Philosophy.
Anna Elisabetta Galeotti examines the most intractable problems which toleration encounters and argues that what is really at stake is not religious or moral disagreement but the unequal status of different social groups. Liberal theories of toleration fail to grasp this and consequently come up with normative solutions that are inadequate when confronted with controversial cases. Galeotti proposes an alternative, toleration as recognition, which addresses the problem of according equal respect to groups as well as equal liberty to individuals.
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Toleration on Trial (Paperback)
Ingrid Creppell, Stephen Macedo; Contributions by Nathan J Brown, Richard H. Dees, John Ferejohn, …
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Toleration on Trial offers the only multidisciplinary study
available on the issue of toleration, bringing together political
psychologists, philosophers, sociologists, Islamic scholars, and
political theorists to examine the most pressing debates in the
field. The volume addresses the toleration question from a number
of angles: toleration and its application to gay rights; Islam and
toleration; institutional, ideological, and psychological
preconditions for its practice; and philosophical and conceptual
arguments for the principle of toleration. The common thread
running throughout the volume is the core question: Is toleration
primarily a product of institutional arrangements, or is it an
attitude of individuals? To answer this adequately, the authors
believe that a contemporary analysis of the possibility,
significance and requirements of toleration must be fully cognizant
of the democratic, or more accurately politically mobilized
background in which toleration becomes a difficult issue. Conflicts
between deeply divided groups within nations and between groups
across political boundaries pose the issue of threat and risk to a
practice or way of life that many peoples find difficult to accept.
Can the idea and practice of toleration manage these in politically
and ethically defensible ways? These essays address various aspects
of the aim to establish or strengthen toleration among politically
mobilized groups, in a context of contemporary democratic
challenges.
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Toleration on Trial (Hardcover)
Ingrid Creppell, Stephen Macedo; Contributions by Nathan J Brown, Richard H. Dees, John Ferejohn, …
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R2,832
Discovery Miles 28 320
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Toleration on Trial offers the only multidisciplinary study
available on the issue of toleration, bringing together political
psychologists, philosophers, sociologists, Islamic scholars, and
political theorists to examine the most pressing debates in the
field. The volume addresses the toleration question from a number
of angles: toleration and its application to gay rights; Islam and
toleration; institutional, ideological, and psychological
preconditions for its practice; and philosophical and conceptual
arguments for the principle of toleration. The common thread
running throughout the volume is the core question: Is toleration
primarily a product of institutional arrangements, or is it an
attitude of individuals? To answer this adequately, the authors
believe that a contemporary analysis of the possibility,
significance and requirements of toleration must be fully cognizant
of the democratic, or more accurately_politically
mobilized_background in which toleration becomes a difficult issue.
Conflicts between deeply divided groups within nations and between
groups across political boundaries pose the issue of threat and
risk to a practice or way of life that many peoples find difficult
to accept. Can the idea and practice of toleration manage these in
politically and ethically defensible ways? These essays address
various aspects of the aim to establish or strengthen toleration
among politically mobilized groups, in a context of contemporary
democratic challenges.
The chapters in this book deal with different, though related,
topics concerning the tense relationship between democracy and
diversity. On the one hand, social diversity represents an
opportunity, widening the horizon of social options and
perspectives of innovation, but, on the other hand, it creates
problems for the social cohesion and peaceful coexistence of many
groups, be they majority or minority. The chapters depart from the
intrinsic connection between democracy and diversity - and the
unavoidable challenges that pluralism poses to decision-making
procedures - investigating, from different perspectives, how the
normative requirement of fully respecting agents' reflexive agency
impacts the revision of democratic decision-making procedures and
the way in which institutions react to citizens' justice-based
claims. All the contributions share the theoretical insight that
diversity is one of the raisons d'etre of democracy, and, still,
all acknowledge that the fact of pluralism poses challenges to the
legitimacy of democratic procedures of decision-making. Indeed, if
citizens had the same values and preferences, collective decisions
would be easily achieved and the institution of democratic
procedures would be redundant. Yet the wide pluralism of doctrines,
habits, social standards, and conceptions of the goods typical of
contemporary societies has often led citizens to challenge the
legitimacy of democratic decisions because these choices do not fit
their preferences or values. To address these challenges following
recent accounts of democratic decision-making, in this volume,
different strategies are introduced, defended, and criticized in
order to outline a perspective that is able to guide actual
decision-making processes (guidance), define standards that
everyone has equal opportunity to fulfil (inclusion), and grant
that citizens exercise their reflexive control on the whole
democratic system (reflexivity). The chapters in this book were
originally published as a special issue of the Critical Review of
International Social and Political Philosophy.
Self-deception, that is the distortion of reality against the
available evidence and according to one's wishes, represents a
distinctive component in the wide realm of political deception. It
has received relatively little attention but is well worth
examining for its explanatory and normative dimensions. In this
book Anna Elisabetta Galeotti shows how self-deception can explain
political occurrences where public deception intertwines with
political failure - from bad decisions based on false beliefs,
through the self-serving nature of those beliefs, to the deception
of the public as a by-product of a leader's self-deception. Her
discussion uses close analysis of three well-known case studies:
John F. Kennedy and the Cuba Crisis, Lyndon B. Johnson and the Gulf
of Tonkin Resolution, and George W. Bush and the weapons of mass
destruction. Her book will appeal to a range of readers in
political philosophy, political theory, and international
relations.
Self-deception, that is the distortion of reality against the
available evidence and according to one's wishes, represents a
distinctive component in the wide realm of political deception. It
has received relatively little attention but is well worth
examining for its explanatory and normative dimensions. In this
book Anna Elisabetta Galeotti shows how self-deception can explain
political occurrences where public deception intertwines with
political failure - from bad decisions based on false beliefs,
through the self-serving nature of those beliefs, to the deception
of the public as a by-product of a leader's self-deception. Her
discussion uses close analysis of three well-known case studies:
John F. Kennedy and the Cuba Crisis, Lyndon B. Johnson and the Gulf
of Tonkin Resolution, and George W. Bush and the weapons of mass
destruction. Her book will appeal to a range of readers in
political philosophy, political theory, and international
relations.
In this 2002 book, Anna Elisabetta Galeotti examines the most
intractable problems which toleration encounters and argues that
what is really at stake is not religious or moral disagreement but
the unequal status of different social groups. Liberal theories of
toleration fail to grasp this and consequently come up with
normative solutions that are inadequate when confronted with
controversial cases. Galeotti proposes, as an alternative,
toleration as recognition, which addresses the problem of according
equal respect to groups as well as equal liberty to individuals.
She offers an interpretation that is both a revision and an
expansion of liberal theory, in which toleration constitutes an
important component not only of a theory of justice, but also of
the politics of identity. Her study will appeal to a wide range of
readers in political philosophy, political theory, and law.
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